With the release of major-label debut What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), Devendra Banhart proves once again he has the potential to be one of his generation’s major players. His voice, with its careening vibrato and fuse-blowing intensity, sounds something like Marc Bolan’s, but his repertoire may be more all over the map than anyone [...]
Big Spider’s Back just released its debut EP, Warped (Circle Into Square), a layered, hazy, lysergic handful of home-recorded tunes that sound like Broken Social Scene coming through an old radio on an acid trip. Earlier this year, the Seattle-based Yair Rubinstein contributed to Universal Studios Florida’s fuzzed-out debut, Ocean Sea Birds. Check out the video for [...]
With the release of major-label debut What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), Devendra Banhart proves once again he has the potential to be one of his generation’s major players. His voice, with its careening vibrato and fuse-blowing intensity, sounds something like Marc Bolan’s, but his repertoire may be more all over the map than anyone [...]
Brimstone Howl sounds like it holed up in a cave for a few years with nothing to eat but the Nuggets boxed sets. The Nebraska band’s powerful spin on ’60s garage/punk should tighten the pants of record collectors everywhere. The title for the group’s latest album, Big Deal. What’s He Done Lately? (Alive), is a [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 25-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. David’s illustration is about the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio — just down the road from [...]
With the release of major-label debut What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), Devendra Banhart proves once again he has the potential to be one of his generation’s major players. His voice, with its careening vibrato and fuse-blowing intensity, sounds something like Marc Bolan’s, but his repertoire may be more all over the map than anyone [...]
Hotly hyped and underage, the members of the xx have been making a fuss in the U.K. for the past four years, and their icy electronic and indie-pop melodies have made them NME heroes when most people their age were playing rounds of beer pong. The xx dropped its self-titled debut earlier this year, and it’s sure to [...]
With the release of major-label debut What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), Devendra Banhart proves once again he has the potential to be one of his generation’s major players. His voice, with its careening vibrato and fuse-blowing intensity, sounds something like Marc Bolan’s, but his repertoire may be more all over the map than anyone [...]
Portland, Ore.’s System And Station has been touring relentlessly for a decade and has shared bills with Sunny Day Real Estate, Built To Spill, Alex Chilton and the Meat Puppets. The band’s latest release, I’m Here To Kill (Latest Flame), produced by Larry Crane (Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus), is a concept EP based around the [...]
The Ettes may be based in Nashville, but they are self-described rock ‘n’ roll gypsies. The quartet—vocalist/guitarist Coco Hames, bassist Jem Cohen, drummer Poni Silver and new guitarist Johnny (who doesn’t seem to have a last name)—recently got in the van for a month-long stint opening for Juliette Lewis in support of third album Do [...]
